I lost My "/home"

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Hi Jim
Am Sa, 22. September 2007 17:58:24 schrieb jim barnes:
> On Saturday 22 September 2007 07:57:54 Suhendri wrote:
> > Hi All..
> >
> > My Desktop was ubuntu-edgy installed. I've splitted my harddisk to 3
> > partitions, as /, /home and swap file.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Please help me how to solve my problem.... So i can get all of our files
> > on /home folder..
>
> I gather you repartitioned after installing to separate /home to its own
> partition? If so, I would proceed cautiously something like this:
>
> mount                         # to list present mount points
> sudo umount /home  # now you have access to your /home files, check!
> sudo mkdir /newhome        # because you can only have one /home at a time
> sudo mount /dev/xxxx /newhome  # using info from the mount command above
> sudo cp -a /home/* /newhome      # make sure directories match after copy!
Shouldn't it be mv and not cp?
Or a:
 rm -r /home/*
is missing here, isn't it?

> sudo umount /newhome
> sudo mount /dev/xxxx /home        # now /home is where is you want it
You copied the files from /home/ to /newhome but you dindn't delete the old 
files in /home/! 

> Log in, make sure it is as expected.
> Reboot, make sure it is as expected.
>
> sudo rm -r /newhome      # not needed anymore

regards,
thomas